The annual Nedbank Running Club Skosana 10km road race looks set to bet yet another well-organized event on the Gauteng North calendar when the starters pistol sounds at the Kgosi Mampuru Prison sports grounds on Saturday 5 December.

With the Corona virus causing destruction around the World and races being either postponed or cancelled, it was a sigh of relief when Skosana and race director Jacquline Rencontre announced that the race, which started in 2012, would go ahead and will also be the first official race back in the Gauteng North province since the Covid19 ban was lifted on races.

“We are really grateful that due to our valuable sponsors, the race is to go ahead,” said Rencontre.

With fields being restricted to only 500 runners and a lot of protocols needed to be seen to on the day, the cost of staging events right now is even harder.

“With the added screening, sanitizers and the field restricted to 500 runners, it makes it not viable at all to have events but with the sponsors on board we have managed to stay afloat,” Rencontre explained.

For entries, runners will only have the option to enter online and not in person on race day morning.

This is to prevent situations such as more than 500 runners pitching up and to keep everyone safe.

Runners can enter at www.peaktiming.co.za/entries

For more info on the event, please contact Enoch Skosana (082 825 8001) or Jacquline Rencontre (082 462 1137).

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